[4eyes] Reminder: Miriah Meyer talk on Visualizing Biological Data at 5pm, ESB

[Tobias Hollerer]

On 4/4/2011 11:34 AM, Matthew Turk wrote:
> And here is info on our second MAT faculty candidate - the (5pm) talk should
> be of interest to the lab....
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> MAT Candidate: Miriah Meyer, Harvard/MIT
> Date: Tuesday, April 5
> Time and Place: 5:00pm in 2001 ESB
> Host: Matthew Turk
>
> Title: Visualizing Biological Data
>
> Abstract:
>
> Visualization tools are essential for deriving meaning from the
> avalanche of data we are generating today. To facilitate an
> understanding of the complex relationships embedded in this data,
> visualization research leverages the power of the human perceptual and
> cognitive systems, encoding meaning through images and enabling
> exploration through human-computer interactions. In my research I design
> visualization systems that support exploratory, complex data analysis
> tasks by scientists who are analyzing large amounts of heterogeneous
> data. These systems allow users to validate their computational models,
> to understand their underlying data in detail, and to develop new
> hypotheses and insights. My research process includes five distinct
> stages, from targeting a specific group of domain experts and their
> scientific goals through validating the efficacy of the visualization
> system. In this talk I'll describe a user-centered, methodological
> approach to designing and developing visualization tools and present
> several successful visualization projects in the areas of genomics and
> systems biology. I will also discuss generalizations that arise from
> working on focused, visualization projects as well as long term
> implications for the field.
>
> Bio:
>
> Miriah is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Engineering
> and Applied Sciences at Harvard University and a visiting scientist at
> the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She obtained her bachelors
> degree in astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University, and
> earned a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah where she
> worked in the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. Miriah is the
> recipient of a NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellow Award for her work on
> collaboratively designing visualization tools for biological data. She
> was also awarded an AAAS Mass Media Fellowship that landed her a stint
> as a science writer for the Chicago Tribune. Miriah is a cofounder of
> the Data Visualization Initiative at the Broad Institute, and she is on
> the organizing committee for the inaugural IEEE Symposium on Biological
> Data Visualization.
>
>
>
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